Hannah, 18, who took Swan Lake's principal role of Odette says: "I want to encourage young girls who may be a little bigger, that they can do it because to dance is an amazing thing."

"In an ideal world it [the show] will open the dance industries eyes to the fact that bigger people can dance and that ballet in particular shouldn’t be just for your typical size 6 ballerina – I know we probably won’t change that!" she adds.

"I also want to be able to stop girls and boys who are bigger from being pressured out of dancing because of the weight – and to carry on if it’s something they really love!"